PNW urban area has coyotes, bald eagles, bears, puma, deer, and hobo in abundance.
clay monroe redgh...@comcast.net > On Aug 22, 2018, at 7:58 AM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > We have alleged coyote sightings in suburban DC, although I have requested > a photo and none have been forthcoming. I remain skeptical > > On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 10:55 AM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > >> R-E-S-P-E-C-T >> >> Some years ago not long after moving here, I was out in the garage working >> one afternoon. The marsh is maybe 30ft from the garage, I heard this >> bellowing sound coming from out there so I walked over to see what it might >> be. It was low tide so I walked out in the marsh a bit, among the >> needlerush, to see if I could see or hear anything. A minute or so later I >> hear the bellowing pretty close by and see the needlerush moving around. >> Decided I should probably move. Later on I did some lookups on the googs >> and discovered this was alligator mating season and that was their mating >> sound, the males go on the move, will go into brackish water or the marsh >> or even the ocean lookin fer love. Not sure how big it was but I did not >> want to find out. >> >> --FT >> >> >> On 8/22/18 10:21 AM, Andrew Strasfogel wrote: >> >>> How have you managed to survive? >>> >>> On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 10:19 AM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes < >>> mercedes@okiebenz.com <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>> wrote: >>> >>> It wasn't even a big one, only an 8 footer. There's some 12 >>> footers live around here, used to be bigger ones back when. >>> >>> A golfer lost an arm a few years back, trying to get a ball that >>> was in a pond, or next to it. Beaufort maybe? chompchomp >>> >>> --FT >>> >>> >>> On 8/22/18 10:01 AM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes wrote: >>> >>> A woman died Monday morning in a suspected alligator attack on >>> Hilton Head >>> Island in South Carolina, police said. >>> >>> The woman, identified as Cassandra Cline, 45, according to >>> South Carolina’s >>> The State >>> <https://www.thestate.com/latest-news/article217007570.html >>> <https://www.thestate.com/latest-news/article217007570.html>>, >>> was >>> walking her dog near a lagoon at Sea Pines Plantation when a large >>> alligator apparently attacked her. >>> >>> “She did not have the dog on a leash, and when she went to go >>> retrieve the >>> dog, the gator came out of the water, grabbed her by the arm >>> and pulled her >>> into the water,” a golf club employee, who does not wish to be >>> identified, >>> told HuffPost. >>> >>> Police were dispatched to the scene around 9:30 a.m.her body,” >>> the Beaufort >>> County Sheriff’s Office said in a press release >>> <https://local.nixle.com/alert/6756610/?sub_id=9412184 >>> <https://local.nixle.com/alert/6756610/?sub_id=9412184>>. The >>> cause of death >>> is pending. >>> >>> A maintenance man is said to have witnessed the attack, which was >>> reportedly recorded on surveillance video. Authorities said >>> the woman’s dog >>> was not harmed. >>> >>> Sam Chappalear of South Carolina’s Department of Natural >>> Resources told The >>> State that the alligator believed responsible for the attack >>> was caught and >>> euthanized. >>> >>> <https://www.facebook.com/SeaPinesLiving/posts/1903758146347212 >>> <https://www.facebook.com/SeaPinesLiving/posts/1903758146347212>> >>> >>> David Lucas, a department spokesman, told HuffPost that >>> verified human >>> fatalities from alligators are “extremely rare.” >>> >>> In July 2016, a 90-year-old woman was found dead in a >>> retention pond behind >>> an assisted living facility in Charleston County. The >>> coroner’s office >>> concluded that she died because of “multiple sharp and blunt force >>> injuries.” >>> >>> At the time, her death was called the first of its kind in the >>> state in >>> decades. >>> >>> “The injuries are consistent with those which could be >>> inflicted by an >>> alligator and our investigation has confirmed that an >>> alligator was >>> involved in the decedent’s death,” Charleston County Coroner >>> Rae Wooten >>> told The Post and Courier >>> <https://www.postandcourier.com/archives/death-of--year-old- >>> woman-attributed-to-gator/article_cf599395-33b3-5bea-8d07- >>> 44381f57733b.html >>> <https://www.postandcourier.com/archives/death-of--year-old- >>> woman-attributed-to-gator/article_cf599395-33b3-5bea-8d07- >>> 44381f57733b.html>> >>> in >>> 2016. >>> _______________________________________ >>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>> >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>> <http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/> >>> >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>> <http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com> >>> >>> >>> -- --FT >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________ >>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>> >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>> <http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/> >>> >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>> <http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com> >>> >>> >>> >> -- >> --FT >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
